ADEE Wellbeing and Resilience Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs) form

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Developing Consensus-Based Wellbeing and Resilience Learning Outcomes for the ADEE Graduating European Dentist Curriculum document		document

As the final phase of the developmental process, the CoP of Wellbeing and Resilience would like to initiate a broad consultation to further validate and refine the proposed intended learning outcomes (ILOs). This step aims to gather structured feedback from a wider group of stakeholders to ensure that the learning outcomes are clear, relevant, measurable, and feasible for implementation across European dental programmes.

Wellbeing and resilience are recognised as foundational competencies that support dental students in engaging fully with their studies, transitioning into professional practice, and delivering safe, high-quality patient care. The ability to monitor and manage one’s own wellbeing, and to cultivate resilience, contributes not only to individual development but also to the long-term sustainability of the dental workforce. As ADEE progresses with the development of the new Graduating European Dentist (GED) curriculum, it remains crucial that these competencies are explicitly embedded within the curriculum framework.

To support this aim, the CoP formed a dedicated working group to produce a set of ILOs. Learning outcomes are understood as a series of individual and objective outcomes, with shared ownership between students and staff, designed to facilitate the learning and assessment process. They provide a structure for students’ self-directed learning while assisting educators in designing, delivering, and assessing curriculum content.

The four proposed ILOs were shaped through extensive engagement with educators, clinicians, psychologists, wellbeing specialists, and students. The next step is to obtain further feedback on their clarity, importance, and perceived implementation challenges. This consultation is facilitated through an online survey that invites participants to rate and comment on each ILO:

Awareness - self and peer

Recognise and reflect on emotional challenges arising from personal, academic, and clinical demands occurring individually, professionally, and within the dental team.

Self-care and coping

Demonstrate and reflect on self-monitoring, self-care, and coping strategies that support personal wellbeing across academic, clinical, and personal contexts.

Resilience

Implement, evaluate, and reflect on a personalised self-care plan to promote resilience and agency in responding constructively to professional challenges, stressors, and setbacks.

Signposting and referral

Identify appropriate resources and strategies for self-help, signposting, or referral for oneself, members of the dental team, or patients.

The survey invites both quantitative ratings and open-text comments, enabling participants to highlight strengths, ambiguities, or areas for improvement. The process draws on prior evidence that complex skills are most effectively developed through staged, scaffolded learning (e.g., Field et al., 2022), an approach that underpins the structure of the proposed ILOs.

Participation in the survey is voluntary and anonymous, with no personal data collected. Responses cannot be withdrawn once submitted due to anonymisation procedures. Data will be analysed using descriptive statistics and thematic review of qualitative comments. The findings will directly inform the final refinement of the wellbeing and resilience ILOs prior to their submission to the GED curriculum taskforce.